Tonight we went to Granny’s house for Christmas dinner with Kyle’s family. We got there pretty early since Karen hadn’t given us a time and we didn’t want to be late and get there to find her upset that dinner had been ready for awhile and was getting cold. 🙂 But when we got there she was still working on dinner, and Laurel and her family hadn’t got there yet. So while we were waiting for them to arrive Granny had our family open our presents from her. Man! She went overboard! I honestly don’t know everything that she got our kids because everybody opened presents at the same time (we do one present at a time in our house). I do know that Chloe got an Eeyore stuffed animal, Dinah got a Minnie doll, and each of them got some clothing item. It was just crazy. Laurel’s family arrived shortly after we opened presents and Karen continued to work on finishing dinner. I guess between Laurel and Karen there were a couple of other people that had been invited but weren’t coming, and when Laurel asked if it was just going to be us or if someone else was coming, Karen said that someone else WAS coming. She was asked “Who?” and she just said “A friend”. Kyle asked “What’s his name???” We all laughed, but the conversation changed gears at that point.
After awhile, we were still all talking in the kitchen when the doorbell rang. Karen, Kyle and Laurel went to answer it. Roine and I stayed in the kitchen talking, and then we hear Laurel SCREAMING “NO WAY! NO WAY! NO WAY! NO WAY!” So Roine and I looked at each other all confused and then we heard Liesl’s voice! Liesl & Ian decided, spur of the moment, to come up for a visit!
The kids were SO excited, and apparently so was Laurel. 😛
Ian had given Liesl a new massive camera so she was taking pictures left and right. So naturally she shared with me. 🙂
When Chloe finished eating her dinner she started to suck her thumb (which is what she does when she is bored), then she decided to multitask:
Here are most of my crazy kids:
Hey look a crazy husband too:
It has been a great evening.
PS: Naturally there are more pictures in the photo gallery. 🙂